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“Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.”
“Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.”
“But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.”
“We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.”
“A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.”
“Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.”
“Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.”
“People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards...”
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the a...”
“Never! while heaven spares my reason, replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.”
“How can one be well...when one suffers morally?”
“My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we children of an indifferent universe. We break our own h...”
“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.”
“Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.”
“Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.”
“HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.”
“Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.”
“It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
“I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?""You're thinking of religion," he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft.”
“Some People Are Wise, And Some Are Otherwise.”
